Bøker av Joseph F. Zimmerman

This comparative study of electoral procedures, trends, and key issues is the first to deal with the representation of women and minorities around the world. This text is intended for courses in comparative politics, political parties and elections, women in politics, and minority politics.

This comprehensive work details the special efforts that need to be initiated by governments on a continuing basis to eliminate unethical behavior by public officers and employees. The current conflict-of-interest programs are inadequate to eliminate corruption, and special controls should be installed to detect and deter unethical behavior.

Congress in the latter part of the nineteenth century decided to enact a series of statutes facilitating state enforcement of their respective criminal laws. Subsequently, Congress enacted statutes federalizing what had been solely state crimes, thereby establishing federal court and state court concurrent jurisdiction over these crimes.Federalization of state crimes has been criticized by numerous scholars, U.S. Supreme Court justices, and national organizations. Such federalization has congested the calendars of the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals leading to delays in civil cases because of the Speedy TrialAct that vacates a criminal indictment if a trial is not commenced within a specific number of days, resulted in over-crowded U.S. penitentiaries, and raises the issue of double jeopardy that is prohibited by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the constitution of each state.This book examines the impact of federalization of state crime and draws conclusions regarding its desirability. It also offers recommendations directed to Congress and the President, one recommendation direct to state legislatures for remedial actions to reduce the undesirable effects of federalized state crimes, and one recommendation that Congress and all states enter into a federal-interstate criminal suppression compact.

Zimmerman places in perspective the important roles played by interstate compacts and interstate administrative agreements in the governance systems of the United States.

This volume has been written specifically for students of the U.S. system of government, and for students interested in federalism in practice.

An examination and evaluation of 16 types of referenda, offering model provisions to make them more effective. The author analyzes a number of general initiative and protest referendum campaigns in order to develop conclusions as to their desirability and the need for reform.

?Zimmerman illustrates, discusses and evaluates the politics of citizen participation in public policy-making in the US. Although personally favoring increased popular involvement, he is fair and comprehensive in his account of the strengths and weaknesses of various methods historically available in American state and local government (the New England town meeting, the initiative, referendum and recall, and cummunity organizing). Rather then belabor theoretical arguments, Zimmerman considers the legal and political variables that facilitate or frustrate citizen involvement. Thus he provides an accessible resource, ably supported by an extensive and valuable bibliography. The book will be especially useful to upper-division undergraduates and graduate students requiring a well-outlined overview of the topic.?-Choice

This work explores the town meeting form of government. It provides a conception of town meeting democracy, positing that it is a de facto representative legislative body with three safety valves - access to all voters, the ability to add articles and call meetings, and the protest referendum.

Examining the use of the recall by United States voters to remove elected state and local officials from office, this book focuses on a national evaluation of the recall. The author analyzes constitutional and statutory recall provisions to develop model provisions.

This text provides a comprehensive examination of US interstate relations, with up-to-date information and analysis relative to interstate suits, full faith and credit, privileges and immunities, tax exportation by states, interstate business competition, and interstate trade barriers.

This is a revision of Zimmerman's study of relations between state and local government. This edition adds a fourth decade of research to bring the material up to the early 1990s. A chapter is added on state mandates and local government.